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Title Consumers and luxury : consumer culture in Europe 1650-1850 / edited by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford
Publication Info Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, U.S.A. : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  HC240.9.C6 C66 1999    CHECKED OUT
Description xi, 260 p. : ill., facsims, map, ports ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction / Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford -- 1. Adam Smith's accommodation of 'altogether endless' desires / Neil de Marchi -- 2. Sans-culottes, sans cafe, sans tabac: shifting realms of necessity and luxury in eighteenth-century France / Colin Jones and Rebecca Spang -- 3. New commodities, luxuries and their consumers in eighteenth-century England / Maxine Berg -- 4. In the name of the tulip. Why speculation? / Marina Bianchi -- 5. Colours and colour making in the eighteenth century / Sarah Lowengard -- 6. Jewellery in eighteenth-century England / Marcia Pointon -- 7. A commerce with things: the value of precious metalwork in early modern England / Helen Clifford -- 8. Making a science of taste: the Revolution, the learned life and the invention of 'gastronomie' / Emma Spary -- 9. 'Quality always distinguishes itself': Louis Hippolyte LeRoy and the luxury clothing industry in early nineteenth-century Paris / Fiona Ffoulkes -- 10. Romanticism and the urge to consume in the first half of the nineteenth century / Stana Nenadic -- 11. The National Gallery in London and its public / Charlotte Klonk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subjects Consumer goods -- Europe -- History
Consumers -- Europe -- History
Luxury.
Europe -- Social conditions.
Additional Authors Berg, Maxine, 1950-
Clifford, Helen.
ISBN 0719052734
0719052742 (pbk.)
OCLC 41387804